Steve Crawford @astrocrawford.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Whew, this Phillies-Braves series may be in the end of me. These first two games have been intense, but great win by the Phillies today! 030
Reposted by Steve Crawfordc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him. 2847551599
Steve Crawford @astrocrawford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Interesting conversation tonight on business cards: I realized it’s just easier to give people key words and either search or LLM tools will return my email. 011
Steve Crawford @astrocrawford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Sharing without much comment but it is an interesting glimpse into the current state of AI use by one publisher: www.frontiersin.org/documents/un...frontiersin.org 010
Steve Crawford @astrocrawford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Thanks @mta.maryland.gov ! I’m not sure if everyone got the message as I still saw lots of cars from the train. Although I’ll also admit that the rain probably didn’t help. 131
Reposted by Steve CrawfordPUNCH mission @punch-mission.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A Year of the Solar Corona, from PUNCH/NFI We just released a full year of PUNCH/NFI data, showing how the #corona evolved during the first 12 months of PUNCH #science operations! ☀️🔭🛰️🧪🚀 whtwnd.com/punch-missio... 1235
Reposted by Steve CrawfordBrett Morris @brettmorr.is · 17/09/2026It's a good time to apply for fellowships at @stsci.edu. 🔭 1. Brinson Prize Fellowship (observational cosmology) due Nov 5: stsci.slideroom.com#/login/progr... 2. Laskar Fellowship (astro data science) due Oct 29: stsci.slideroom.com#/login/progr... 042
Reposted by Steve CrawfordSarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Incredible experience watching the Springboks vs. All Blacks at the Ravens stadium last night. Largest ever crowd for a rugby match on US soil and Baltimore awash in green & gold (and some black too) 2251
Reposted by Steve CrawfordSarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If you're having a slow science day, you could come up with some names for this cute space dinosaur for @esa.int. Please only post reasonable suggestions on here, the inappropriate ones should go to my DMs. 01410
Reposted by Steve CrawfordDr. Amber Straughn (she/her) @astraughnomer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This website follows Roman on its journey to L2 😀🚀 (I think the best view is to go to "View Options" and select "System") eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-s...eyes.nasa.govEyes on the Solar System - NASA/JPLExplore the 3D world of the Solar System. Learn about past and future missions. 0186
Reposted by Steve CrawfordSarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Nice Dragonfly update including the recently approved name of the dune field where we will land We’re going to Ahmakiq undae. go.nasa.gov/4zTQdAAgo.nasa.govNASA’s Dragonfly Gets Wired Up While Titan Landing Area Is Named - NASA SciencePeeking into the clean room at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, it might be one of the first things you notice about 314135
Reposted by Steve CrawfordSarameg @sarameg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026If you want to keep up with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s progress: science.nasa.gov/blogs/roman/science.nasa.govNancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Archives - NASA ScienceThe Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope blog is NASA's hub for the mission's launch updates, where all are invited for behind-the-scenes looks on Roman's road to launch and beyond. This flagship mission... 064
Reposted by Steve CrawfordSangeeta Malhotra @astrodame.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Nancy Grace Roman Space telescope is ready to launch. With a field of view 100 times that of Hubble at same resolution, the NGRST will carry out large surveys to detect exoplanets, and study the large scale structure of the universe, to quantify dark matter and energy. 0247
Reposted by Steve CrawfordJason Hutt @jthutt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Walked around the neighborhood tonight thinking about the fundamental differences in crew response to a loss of cabin pressure for Moon Base in comparison to every other spacecraft we’ve operated as one does… 3273
Steve Crawford @astrocrawford.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Swift has been an absolute incredible telescope. Per dollar, it has probably been one of the most productive scientific experiments in astronomy with over 4000 publications over 21 years. And I’m sure the archived data will contribute to many studies in the future! 070
Reposted by Steve CrawfordSarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 17/08/2026This and a few further updates are also described in this SPIE paper by me & the whole MIRI team, on the Arxiv today arxiv.org/abs/2608.13873arxiv.orgEnhancing the performance and capabilities of the MIRI instrument on JWSTMIRI, the Mid-Infrared Instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope, is the only instrument sensitive to wavelengths longward of 5 um on the observatory. In this regime, MIRI brings order-of-magnitude... 2244
Reposted by Steve CrawfordJohn Debes @johndebes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Fun news--You can use UV space instruments on HST not optimized for precision RVs to do pretty decent radial velocity work, thanks to UV ISM lines: www.stsci.edu/files/live/s... #astroscistsci.edu 141
Reposted by Steve CrawfordSpace Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 14/08/2026🌌 Hubble has taken well over a million and a half observations to date. Many of these have become iconic images that are now embedded in our pop culture. A select few have been made into a series of posters that now hang at STScI. Download and print your own Hubble posters!science.nasa.govHubble Posters - NASA ScienceThe Hubble Space Telescope has taken well over a million and a half observations to date. Many of these have become iconic images that are now embedded in our 05827
Steve Crawford @astrocrawford.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I was looking for something else on the NASA website when I came Across this collection of letters that Astronaut Jerry Linenger wrote to his 14 month old son during his stay on the Mir space station in 1997. www.nasa.gov/history/SP-4... Such an interesting glimpse into life on a space stationnasa.govDocuments - Jerry Linenger's Letters to his Son 054
Reposted by Steve CrawfordDon Davis @ddavisspaceart.bsky.social · 03/08/202651 years ago I painted a trio of Viking related works for NASA HQ including the widely reproduced one of the landing on Mars. I have reimagined the Landing portrayal in updated form using digital methods of visualization and painting. I chose the same angle but with reality replacing anticipation. 723585
Steve Crawford @astrocrawford.bsky.social · 01/08/2026The best way to the ballpark! And sorry Baltimore, tonight, it’s let’s go Phils! 130
Reposted by Steve CrawfordJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Another paper from our NASA-funded project on ferns has dropped! UWyoming MS student Fern (really!) Holian, developed a new schema for classifying fossil ferns, which are understudied. 🧪🌿☄️bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.comApplication of a novel schema for describing fossil fern foliage and investigating taxonomic and morphological change across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary in western North AmericaPremise The Chicxulub asteroid impact at the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary triggered a mass extinction 66 million years ago. Ferns thrived in the aftermath of the extinction, evidenced by the..... 312332
Steve Crawford @astrocrawford.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I am at the Patterson Park Simmer concert with Charm city songs and the Down Range army band. Someone just said ‘the point of the army is to preserve great music.’ And I’m like, I want to live in that future where the army is just composed of great musicians and that is their only purpose. 010
Steve Crawford @astrocrawford.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I’m 100% a Phillies fan, but I love Orioles Bluesky. 010
Reposted by Steve CrawfordSarah Kendrew @sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Statement from @esa.int on the Spain wildfires, via ESA's DG @josefaschbacher.esa.int. 032
Reposted by Steve CrawfordQiusheng Wu @giswqs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026GeoLibre v2.3.0 is here! Try it out - Launch GeoLibre Web: web.geolibre.app - GitHub: github.com/opengeos/Geo... - Documentation: geolibre.app - Release notes: github.com/opengeos/Geo... #GIS #Geospatial #OpenSource #RemoteSensing #MapLibre #GeoLibre 17715
Reposted by Steve CrawfordNSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 24/07/2026Talk about a cosmic glow-up✨📸 This progression of images of galaxy group RSCG 55 shows the evolution of ground-based sky surveys spanning more than three decades🤯, ending with NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's view. 🔭🧪 925490
Steve Crawford @astrocrawford.bsky.social · 20/07/2026NASA is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Viking Lander on Mars! #nasa #mars science.nasa.gov/mission/viki...science.nasa.govViking: 50 Years on Mars - NASA ScienceOnly 10 years before the Viking mission launched, Mars was still just a mottled orange ball when viewed through even the best Earthbound telescopes, with few 061
Steve Crawford @astrocrawford.bsky.social · 17/07/2026One of my favorite recent highlights from NASA research is this data release from the BioSCape project. It is an audio data set to track the ecosystem and compare with remote sensing in one of my absolutely favorite regions of the world! #NASA #OpenScience science.data.nasa.gov/learn/blog/b...science.data.nasa.govNASA-Funded BioSCape Project Releases Biodiversity Audio Dataset | Science Data Portal 072
Steve Crawford @astrocrawford.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Today I learned about the Huldremose Women and that plaid is at least 2300 years old. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huldrem... 000
Steve Crawford @astrocrawford.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Okay I’m off to Copenhagen to be a tourist for a week. What are the things that I shouldn’t miss or the hidden gems? 110
Steve Crawford @astrocrawford.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Eating the ice cream for breakfast to save it from melting with having the power out. Good luck to the BGE crew working in this heat to restore power! 010
Reposted by Steve CrawfordQiusheng Wu @giswqs.bsky.social · 20/06/2026GeoLibre v1.5.0 is here! Try it out - Live demo: viewer.geolibre.app - GitHub: github.com/opengeos/Geo... - Documentation: geolibre.app - Release notes: github.com/opengeos/Geo... #GIS #GeospatialData #OpenSource #RemoteSensing #DataVisualization #MapLibre #Python 2215
Reposted by Steve CrawfordDr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 12/06/2026We're hiring a software developer! Help bring the next generation of coding practices and tools to the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, and work with my team in sunny SoCal! Applications are due July 6th, please let me know if you have any questions! phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf03/ats/ca...phf.tbe.taleo.netHiring Application Developer, IPAC - Pasadena, CAView job details and apply now 22915
Reposted by Steve CrawfordEmily Lakdawalla 🏳️⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Also two staff scientist positions: phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf03/ats/ca... phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf03/ats/ca... 176
Reposted by Steve CrawfordEmily Lakdawalla 🏳️⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Two postdoc positions are open at Caltech IPAC working on NEO Surveyor: aas.org/jobregister/... 11310
Reposted by Steve CrawfordDr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026We're hiring! The NASA Exoplanet Archive at @caltechipac.bsky.social is hiring a staff scientist as we prep for Roman and Gaia. The role is a mix of programmatic support and independent research in my fabulous team in sunny SoCal at Caltech! Due July 10, 2026 - ask me anything! #jobs #exoplanetsphf.tbe.taleo.netHiring Staff Scientist, IPAC - Pasadena, CAView job details and apply now 710457
Steve Crawford @astrocrawford.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Good thread on recent Miri observations and this is a really interesting approach to handling data processing decisions - looking forward to reading more 020
Reposted by Steve CrawfordJulie Sofie K. Larsen @juli827g.bsky.social · 25/05/2026My first peer-reviewed paper is out in Scientific Reports! We studied how narwhals in NW Greenland respond to sea ice conditions, with implications for their future as Arctic ice declines🧊 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Arctic #Narwhal #MarineBiology #WildlifeConservationnature.comSea ice dynamics structure narwhal presence and seasonal movements in a Northwest Greenland fjord system - Scientific ReportsScientific Reports - Sea ice dynamics structure narwhal presence and seasonal movements in a Northwest Greenland fjord system 1114
Reposted by Steve CrawfordDr. Craig DeForest ☀️ @craig.deforest.org · 20/05/2026Holy cow! Feast your eyes a while, on this gorgeous solar spectrum by the Sol'Ex instrument (assembled by Váradi Nagy Pál). It extends to UV and IR as well as the visible band. Marvel at the F lines, the fine structure, the IR doublets and repeating lines, and the molecular bands. Wonderful! ☀️🧪⚛️🔭 611839
Reposted by Steve CrawfordMelina Thévenot🏳️⚧️ @melina-iras07572.bsky.social · 20/05/2026I looked at the machine-readable table 1 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... I co-discovered 101 of these 3000 brown dwarf candidates. I also co-discovered 2 candidate wide binaries (image). 🟣🟣🔄 (violet because that is probably their real color) 1195
Reposted by Steve CrawfordJoe Renaud @spacetides.bsky.social · 19/05/2026If you are in dc tonight there will be some awesome Artemis II themed talks at @astroontapdc.bsky.social including by the illustrious @vividreams.bsky.social at DC9 astronomyontap.org/locations/wa...astronomyontap.orgWashington DC – Astronomy On Tap 194
Steve Crawford @astrocrawford.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Thank you @mta.maryland.gov for the bike reflector for Bike to work week! I definitely enjoy how easy it is to take my bike on the Marc! 130
Steve Crawford @astrocrawford.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Credit and provenance are often removed when using a general LLM. This is a problem as much of the scientific culture is in providing credit and provenance. So if you are not careful, the new idea developed with a general LLM can be someone else’s that was hidden in the training data. 121
Steve Crawford @astrocrawford.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Baltimore bike to work week is at least the same as all my other weeks biking to the train to go into work: calling 311 to report vehicles parked in the bike lane. At least I get to talk to the Baltimore 311 operators. They are always very nice and helpful. #baltimore #biketowork 130
Steve Crawford @astrocrawford.bsky.social · 07/05/2026While producing foundation models is interesting, it is even more interesting when they are put into production. In space. science.nasa.gov/science-rese...science.nasa.govNASA's Prithvi Becomes First AI Geospatial Foundation Model In Orbit - NASA ScienceA team of researchers demonstrated NASA and IBM’s open-source Prithvi Geospatial artificial intelligence foundation model aboard two in-orbit platforms. 130
Steve Crawford @astrocrawford.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Science takes all types of contributions and this is a great example of recognizing volunteer and community contributions when the rise to the level of co-authorship. #nasa #citizenscience #openscience science.nasa.gov/get-involved...science.nasa.gov650 NASA Volunteers Have Co-Authored Scientific Papers - NASA ScienceAfter a recent count, NASA Citizen Science is proud to report that more than 650 people who have volunteered to participate in NASA citizen science projects 071
Steve Crawford @astrocrawford.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Science takes all types of contributions and this is a great example of recognizing volunteer and community contributions when the rise to the level of co-authorship. #nasa #citizenscience #openscience science.nasa.gov/get-involved...science.nasa.gov650 NASA Volunteers Have Co-Authored Scientific Papers - NASA ScienceAfter a recent count, NASA Citizen Science is proud to report that more than 650 people who have volunteered to participate in NASA citizen science projects 031